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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed Thursday reports that his government is considering plans to ban smoking in outdoor spaces such as pub gardens in a nanny state-style intervention.

Smoke ’em if you got ’em. That’s the message from New Zealand’s incoming conservative coalition government which has vowed to scrap the nation’s smoking ban to fund tax cuts across the broader community and stem any possibility of starting a black market.

The United Kingdom is to phase out smoking altogether, the government says, by banning young people from buying cigarettes at all.

The allegedly “Conservative” government of Rishi Sunak is reportedly looking to impose an effective ban on cigarettes for the next generations of Britons.

A teenager from San Diego, California, ran through a window and plunged 60 feet after smoking salvia, a legal hallucinogenic plant, and survived, NBC San Diego reported Tuesday.

The Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is developing a policy that could ban people from smoking in their own apartments.

New Zealand passed a law on Tuesday that effectively phases out legal tobacco use over the next generation by banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Tuesday said it is time to hold smokers to account for polluting the planet and “leaving mountains of waste to drive global warming.”

The legal age of smoking in Britain could reportedly be raised to 21 years old under a move from the nominally Conservative government.

Deputies in Polk County arrested a 19-year-old Lake Wales, Florida, man on Thursday who is accused of shooting and killing his mother.

New Zealand’s far-left government plans to outlaw smoking nationwide by 2025, the country’s health ministry announced Thursday. Plans to effectively eliminate smoking in New Zealand over the next four years have now been finalized, New Zealand Associate Health Minister Ayesha

Oxfordshire is looking to become the first “smoke-free” county in England by the year 2025, with proposals to ban smoking in outdoor spaces.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) administration issued a new order Monday requiring masks in smoking lounges.

San Francisco has banned smoking tobacco inside apartments due to secondhand smoke concerns but residents are still allowed to smoke pot.

North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), a communist rubber-stamp legislature, passed a law on Wednesday banning smoking in public areas, locations used for “ideological education,” and health and child facilities.

A Labour-run council had reportedly banned its employees from smoking at their desks while working at home, with a report revealing more employers are becoming hostile to smokers.

A North Korean state propaganda website announced the creation of a domestically accessible website to help citizens quit smoking on Sunday, news that arrives as Pyongyang expedites the construction of a new hospital and insists it has yet to be affected by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Smoking may reduce the likelihood of being hospitalised with coronavirus, claim researchers at the University of West Attica and NYU.

Petrol pumps in Britain should carry climate change warning labels akin to the legally-mandated health warnings on cigarette packages, a group of scientists have said.

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg claimed in the 2020 Democrat debate in Charleston, South Carolina, that people lived longer because of him.

Legislators have proposed a ban on smoking in private homes to prevent second-hand smoke inhalation in Suffolk County, New York. 

Trump indicated that he would sign the $738 billion spending bill, which includes a slew of other legislative priorities for both Republicans and Democrats.

President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte announced his intention on Tuesday to ban the use and importation of electronic cigarettes after the country’s Health Ministry reported its first case of a vaping related illness. 

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) took aim at a conservative witness during Tuesday’s House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy panel on vaping, asking the woman if she was a “conspiracy theorist” after catching her winking at a Republican lawmaker across the room.

A restaurant owner has apologized for spraying a man in the face with a fire extinguisher when he refused to stop smoking a cigarette outside his restaurant in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday.

After a scathing report published by the anti-tobacco Truth Initiative organization, Netflix has publicly committed to reducing on-screen smoking.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is threatening to pull e-cigarettes like Juul off the market because they’re proving too popular with the kids.

A woman has been arrested on Wednesday in Raleigh, North Carolina, and her child taken into protective custody after a Facebook video of the baby smoking went viral, police said.

A New York City councilman introduced a bill that would make it illegal to smoke while walking in the city’s latest attempt to wage war on smoking.

VIENNA (Reuters) – While much of the West has barred smoking in restaurants and bars, Austria’s impending ban is set to be stubbed out.

Pope Francis has issued his personal version of “Thank you for not smoking,” announcing a ban on the sale of cigarettes in the Vatican to go into effect in 2018.

New research claims that teenagers used to smoking e-cigarettes containing high levels of nicotine are likely to move onto smoking conventional cigarettes.

Britain’s socialised National Health Service (NHS) is planning to ban obese patients and smokers from having surgery unless they lose weight or kick the habit.

Beginning November 1, cigarettes and other tobacco products will disappear from the shelves of stores in dozens of military bases around the country as the army steps up its fight against smoking, the Israel Defense Force’s manpower chief said Sunday.

In approximately 30 days, the only place Laguna Beach residents and visitors will be able to smoke legally will be in their cars or homes.

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic is one step away from losing its status of one of the last havens for tobacco smokers in Europe.